Citrix Hypervisor Security Bulletin for CVE-2022-42316, CVE-2022-42317 & CVE-2022-42318

Description of Problem

Several security issues have been identified in Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 LTSR CU1, each of which may allow a privileged user in a guest VM to cause part of the management service to become unresponsive, resulting in the inability to create new guests or modify the configuration of running guests.
These issues have the following CVE identifiers:

• CVE-2022-42316
• CVE-2022-42317
• CVE-2022-42318
• CVE-2022-42323

What Customers Should Do

Citrix has released a hotfix to address these issues. Citrix recommends that affected customers install this hotfix as their patching schedule allows. The hotfix can be downloaded from the following locations:
Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 LTSR CU1: CTX472925 – <https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX472925&gt;

What Citrix is Doing

Citrix is notifying customers and channel partners about this potential security issue through the publication of this security bulletin on the Citrix Knowledge Center at <https://support.citrix.com/securitybulletins&gt;.

Obtaining Support on This Issue

If you require technical assistance with this issue, please contact Citrix Technical Support. Contact details for Citrix Technical Support are available at <https://www.citrix.com/support/open-a-support-case&gt;.

Subscribe to Receive Alerts

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Reporting Security Vulnerabilities to Citrix

Citrix welcomes input regarding the security of its products and considers any and all potential vulnerabilities seriously. For details on our vulnerability response process and guidance on how to report security-related issues to Citrix, please see the following webpage: <https://www.citrix.com/about/trust-center/vulnerability-process.html&gt;.

Disclaimer

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